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Civil Right to Counsel, Phase II

Status: complete

Research Purpose: This project was a follow-up to our original Civil Right to Counsel project that designed a comprehensive random assignment study to look at the impact of providing legal counsel to indigent individuals in tenant/landlord (eviction) cases. The follow-up project included a needs assessment of two pilot sites (Philadelphia, PA, and Pierce County [Tacoma], WA) to gather information about the unmet legal needs and legal contexts of these two areas. The project also identified relevant cost elements for inclusion in the future full study and established cost estimates and proxies when feasible and plans for how to measure costs in the actual full study.